Funky House/UK Funky??? What a load of wank

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:55 am

Nah see i think that Roska record is a bit weak. Not really feeling the neighbourhood rmx's either.

Im just on this bass heavy, 130-135bpm tech, dark house, swung to fuck, rapey...

no its not called "funkstep" either, trying to discourage that term wherever possible.

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:28 pm

MiscreanT wrote:
Slothrop wrote:
MiscreanT wrote:Theres still an awful amount of cheesey shite
Tbh the cheesy shite is part of what makes it enjoyable... the juxtaposition of cheesy shite with fairly hard beats and bass, and also the fact that it actually sounds like music for going out and partying to rather than for 300 serious faced teenage boys (of all ages) in t-shirts to stare at the floor to while congratulating themselves on having found music that no girls like and hence that definitely isn't gay...
If theres ever been a more spot on statement made on this forum i'll eat my hat.

hahaha so true. Slothrop is always OTM.

uncle bill · Post by **uncle bill** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:41 pm

SNYPADUB wrote:don't want to upset anyone but I think this whole genre is turd, poor repettitive beats with cliched vocal hooks and shitty funky basslines, It just doesn't stir my emotions. For a genre to be good imo it has to really inspire the senses, the first propper band i fell in love with was the ramones because they sounded so different from anything else and it just made me tingle listning to their music. I get the same feeling about dubstep and, to an extent, dnb because the bassline and structure inspire me. House, on the other hand, feels dull and un inspiring.

Show me a house tune with heaps of orrigionality and emotion and I will gladly eat my words.

Ok, here's TEN.

Jamie Principal - Baby Wants To Ride
Joe Smooth Inc - The Promised Land
Fingers Inc - Can You Feel It?
Sterling Void - It's Alright
db - I have A Dream
C. C. Rogers - Someday
Frankie Knuckles feat. Robert Owens - Tears
Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles - Your Love
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body
Raze - Break 4 Love

etc

House is a pretty broad church. A lot of the Funky stuff I find a bit lightweight but when you add the right amount of soul to a 4/4 beats the results can be pretty fucking overpowering.

formzee · Post by **formzee** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:13 pm

all this years best records have been closer to 'funky' than 'dubstep'

djelements · Post by **djelements** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:34 pm

Uncle Bill wrote: Fingers Inc - Can You Feel It?

I sent him this. He didn't like it. There's no hope.

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:37 pm

Zinc & Geeneus's Emotions was a worthy early piece
but it only takes the drums to come forward & the bass to fade a little for funky to become saccharinely gunky.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:43 pm

The DJ's set's who regularly play all funky (I.E Marcus Nasty..) are boring, it's when other DJ's switch up & play other styles of House, or other Genre's altogether. Im sure people have noticed the eclectism of numerous DJ's sets who bring funky in. However going back to my earlier post re: scratcha & deep tek, for the most part I wouldnt regard their sets as straight Funky. More like deep/tech house, with that UK Funky sound. It's very bass heavy & just like dubstep it would be silly of people to disregard the sound, based on the opinion that all the DJ's play the same "cliched vocal beats". Obviously some do, and thats just about as good as going Romford on friday.

The exciting thing is that the "funkstep"

tagged shows which is being applied to shows on rinse is where I think people (on this forum especially) would find the more creative, and inspring element of this genre. Not saying that the vocal's are bad, i mean I'd certainly pick a whole night of "cheesy" vocal funky over a night of rapemeinthefacestep. There is obv people who like the genre's equally who would pick the latter. It's just a case of not tarnishing it all with the same brush.

Good point about the Vocal's aswell slothrop. As for 300 blokes all screwfacing the floor in plastic people, "thas ow we like it doh!"

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:46 pm

per·cus·sion (pr-kshn)
n.
1. The striking together of two bodies, especially when noise is produced.
2. The sound, vibration, or shock caused by the striking together of two bodies.

ahier · Post by **ahier** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:16 pm

deams can you gimme a selection of some deep house that is worth checking out? cos beyond the stuff on that geeneus FWD set (which i am currently snapping up as much of as possible), i dont really know where to start. I found a few gems here and there eg the Don Peps - Tribal remix, hot city stuff and the like, but any pointers would be sweet

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:26 am

mate, am as ni-eve (spelling) as you when it comes to deep house.

http://soundcloud.com/deepteknologi/dee ... nse-fm-mix

check the above out. This is the mix I think alot of the people in this forum will salivate over.

Also check Simbad on Dejavu, he likes to go very deep, has a nice selection.

Slothrop?

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:31 am

deamonds wrote:mate, am as ni-eve (spelling) as you when it comes to deep house.

http://soundcloud.com/deepteknologi/dee ... nse-fm-mix

check the above out. This is the mix I think alot of the people in this forum will salivate over.

Also check Simbad on Dejavu, he likes to go very deep, has a nice selection.

Slothrop?

SICKKKKKK! been vibein to this!

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:36 am

deamonds wrote:Marcus Nasty... boring

Ur straight mad Dea.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:52 am

his recent ones have been. Nathan on the other hand...rahhh!

ahier · Post by **ahier** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:18 pm

cheers, will download that mix now.
and yeah i agree marcus nasty hasnt been as good as he was when i first listened to his show, back in october. swear he is still playing songs from back then nearly a year on. still listen to that set where he had JME, frisco versatile and some others in the studio though, that one was sick.
also i find it well hard finding house on vinyl, most of it is digital and that that does come out often pushes 7/8 quid a time. and converted to digital is way too expensive a move for me to do right no

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